1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
China
Compare this sourced profile of Harbin, China before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Harbin—5,242,897, Asia/Shanghai, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital of Heilongjiang province, China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Harbin is GeoNames ID 2037013. Its recorded administrative path is Harbin Shi → Heilongjiang → China, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Harbin occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-13; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Harbin ranks 56 by recorded population. Inside the 296 selected China entries it ranks 19; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 35. Its 5,242,897 population value is 4.50 times the 1,165,375 median for the country cohort and 5.20 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Harbin falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's China population cohort. Harbin's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Harbin's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Daqing at 157.258 km with 1,604,027 recorded people; Jilin City at 211.774 km with 1,895,865 recorded people; Changchun at 232.794 km with 4,714,996 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 75.536 km. Compared with Daqing, Harbin's recorded population is 3.27 times as large. Against Harbin, Daqing follows Daqing Shi → Heilongjiang → China in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Shanghai identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Harbin's. Against Harbin, Jilin City follows Jilin Shi → Jilin → China in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Shanghai identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Harbin's. Against Harbin, Changchun follows Changchun Shi → Jilin → China in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected China cohort, uses the shared Asia/Shanghai identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Harbin's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 895 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Harbin's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 2037013, the coordinate pair 45.7500 / 126.6500, country rank 19 of 296, and neighbor GeoNames 2037860 at 157.258 km bind Harbin to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Harbin's reference point is 45.7500° north and 126.6500° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai is shared by 291 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Harbin's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Harbin's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Harbin's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Harbin, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Harbin's closest other entries in this atlas are Daqing (157.258 km), Jilin City (211.774 km), Changchun (232.794 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-13; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.